State-building, Expansion, and Conflict!

Civilization: Early African Societies

Name: Angela Quintero-Corine


Themes
How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Political Structures and forms of governance
  • Egyptian ruler, Menes gathered all of the Nile Kingdoms together and turned them into one big united kingdom.
Empires

Nations and nationalism
  • Sudan's people were able to start building small states for themselves.
  • Egypt's and Nubia's states were built and started from their small agricultural villages.
  • Areas close to the Nile River began to become kingdoms and/or states.
Revolts and revolutions
  • Political and economic competition often led to small wars between the Nile Kingdoms.
  • Some kingdoms, which overpowered their neighboring states, took over those states and began to control their territories. Thus, expanding their power to take over more close states.
  • Egypt eventually dominated over lower Nubia.
  • In about the eighth century the new kingdom of Kush was so powerful that they invaded Epypt.
Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
  • By about 2500 B.C.E. the powerful kingdom of Kush was established.
  • Nubians organized a new kingdom of Kush, who's capital was named Napata.